what will i do when i don't have you to hold onto in the dark?

[lllookalive]

Ugh, this has taken me long enough.

Hey, manipulant, I hope you love me with all of your bourbon heart, okay?



Two more for the Into The Woods set. (And I post in the order they were drawn, not the order of the chapters. Just... FYI. Like it matters.)

I feel like at this point it's mostly pointless/redundant to state just how completely I employ the term "loosely based upon", but for posterity. VERY. VERY LOOSELY BASED UPON.

Frankelstilskin


In what was probably one of the most appropriate casting decisions made within fandom, Frank Iero plays a guitar-toting Rumpelstiltskin. Strums straw into gold and doles out free relationship advice. Bonus penis-having recognition abilities.



The Pea Episode


WAITWAITWAIT HEAR ME OUT, IT MAKES SENSE, I PROMISE. Well. Kind of it does.
So the Princess And The Pea. Better known as the Pea Episode. I had no idea what to draw, because it's all... tame. Like, nothing really horrible happens to anybody, there's no impending doom, no swan-dives into giant piles of thorns. Everyone is kind of cranky and petulant, but that doesn't exactly translate to my, uh. Style. If you could call it that. But then there's this creepy-ass dream sequence with pseudo-zombie Brendon (manipulant, correct me if my interpretation's wrong) that goes all nuts and starts pushing people off cliffs and just being all sketchy all over the place. So duh. Artistic license blah blah excuse to draw creepy veiny organ-chair blah.



and night comes to Tallahassee


This just sort of happened while I was listening to Oceanographer's Choice on repeat. John Darnielle writes some of my most very favorite words.



And a bonus doodle!

you are my anchor


My Man Without Wax fangirling, let me show you it.
Although, I'm pretty sure that when they put You are my anchor on their band shirts, they meant it in the nice way.
...Ohwell.



Bigger, shinier versions here, at my Blogspot.
...Maybe someday I'll even have followers. And like. triple-digit pageviews. Lol.

Comments

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Oh, nono, I just wanted to make sure it was like, DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER YES. I figured you knew.

And yeah, I guess it almost defeats the point of it being based on real people, but I tend to prefer when the author really makes it their own, rather than adhering to canon or trying to work in really solid character traits or whatever. Then I start to remember I'm reading rpf and then I start to get all uncomfortable, and it usually ends in a day spent hiding under the covers watching Disney movies until my brain atrophies. ...It's a routine.

I don't think it's the idea of the color that gets me. I think it's like, whenever I try to use it for my own stuff, it looks cheap and garish. And then I lose patience before I can get it to start working. I'm not kidding, I seriously have zero attention span for anything that isn't holding a pencil. But I know what you mean, too, like. You're trying to get some anatomical detail or whatever to work, and it's just barely scraping by, and then you have to color it. And all of a sudden it's REALLY OBVIOUS that you're bs'ing it. At least, that's my experience. Which tends to be where I go AAAAAAAGHGHGHFUCKIT and we're right back where we started with Disney musical-enabled avoidance.

(the Unicorn Warrior pt2 was actually drawn for Gerard Way. Because my friends are a bunch of pushers. I just... haven't sent it to his creeper mailbox where he wants the pictures of Mikey he asked for sent. And I was trying to color it and it wasn't working and I had this huge meltdown partially on LJ and I haven't really thought of it since. I should... maybe send it. Ngh.)

CRAVATS ARE GO. Yeah, I have one that I make out of this white silk men's scarf I got in this little vintage shop hole in the wall I'm painfully addicted to. I pin it with this huge, heavy stainless steel coat of arms pin I got at the same time, and it's generally pretty badass. I wore it to a Decemberists show with this electric blue button-down, it was great. Cravats are so overlooked. SIGH.

Yay new Twitter people yes! I found you through Speep, so. I figured you wouldn't mind. I mostly post nonsense and like, weirdo stream of consciousness rambling. Nothing terribly interesting. And also like, every time I encounter a spider. D:<

lol don't worry about late-night incoherency. I keep weird hours and get all nuts and end up spamming people with blathering nonsense. It's a miracle I have friends.

[arabel.livejournal.com]

SPEAKING OF CRAVATS (which are clearly the most important thing in this conversation, so I'm putting this first) - have you seen this? I imagine if you are a connoisseur of cravats, you will have.... One of my favourite things ever.

I love that you have an actual cravat - the closest I ever got was to wear a spotted scarf under a shirt and it looked pretty cravat-ey. Still not quite the same?

Haha, retreating to Disney movies sounds like a solid strategy to me (do you have a favourite? I guess that's kind of like asking what people's favourite movie in general is - how do you even answer that?). I just tend not to follow news and interviews and stuff like that unless there's something particularly noteworthy happening. I feel best if my knowledge of the people in question is intentionally hazy and made up. I don't like thinking that I know them too well, I feel weird.

You should totally send that drawing to Gerard! I don't think it needs colour - I think it's amazing and awesome, and the world would be a sadder place if it doesn't get to fulfill its intended purpose. It's seriously rad as.

Although I totally get having a meltdown over colouring and so on....I have had my share of meltdowns and it rather sucks. Although mine are kind of quiet and introspective, but still, however they work they're hardly fun. But I really think that it's a lovely artwork.

And I know exactly what you mean on colour, although hilariously I have the opposite problem, and everything looks wishy washy and washed out, with no contrast or emphasis. I end up throwing a layers level on everything in photoshop in an attempt to add contrast. And OH YES, I know what you mean about bs'ing... it's so depressing. Oh well. My solution is generally to look for a reference pic, and drive myself mental trying to get it right. :D

Or I tend to practice video game avoidance - if I spend some time trying to hone my skills in Starcraft 2, I can even attempt to convince myself I'm doing something productive. Almost.

Of course, I totally don't mind having you on twitter, it's great! I've been a little quiet on twitter of late, but I go through swings of posting not much, then a fair bit, so I'm sure it'll swing around again.

I bet our spiders are bigger than yours. :3

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

DUDE! YES! I have read HAV but I haven't read that particular one, so. OH MY GOD, IT'S PERFECT. And I doubt mine is really like the real thing. It's just really good at faking it.

Ohman, favorite Disney movie. Lessee... I think my default tends to be Little Mermaid? But Aladdin tends to compete pretty hard. Mostly because of this. But. Also Lion King, Hunchback, Beauty And The Beast... Yeah. I've really never outgrown that stage. And fuck yes, I have most of all three High School Musical soundtracks memorized and I'm not ashamed to admit it. What else are you supposed to sing loudly while driving through small towns?
Do you have a favorite?

Ngh, as far as keeping up goes... Yeah, most of my Panic! news I get fed to me through friends, which is how I like it. It's more fun that way, especially when someone is all flaily about it or whatever, it makes me feel less like a creeper. I tend to mostly just keep up on actualfax music press, so like. Spin and AP and MTV Newsroom online or whatever, mostly just because I'm obsessed with music like some people are obsessed with following the stock market or some shit. I really love when musicians can articulate and express themselves successfully through press and interviews.

Yeah, I gotta send it. I will, I just gotta get off my ass and get people to tell me what the PO box is, since I'm not the one who looks this shit up. And I do appreciate the peer pressure. It helps. ♥

Ohman, my shift partner at work is kind of obsessed with Starcraft 2. I haven't played since the first one, like. When I was 11 or whatever, briefly, but it's funny as shit to watch him freaking out about all the major tournament stuff going on.

Your spiders and your EVERYTHING BAD, ANGRY AND POISONOUS are bigger than ours. I mean holy shit, dude. No offense, but I have no desire to go over there and get eaten by the first mad, hairy/scaly, venomous death monster whose path I wander across. And I'm from Hawaii, our shit ain't small there, either. I'm just gonna happily move back to Chicago where everything cold-blooded and insecty dies in October, if it can even exist at all with all that concrete everywhere. ...And then I'll swim in the lake and grow an extra arm or some shit, you watch.

[arabel.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think if your cravat is indistinguishable from the real thing, it basically is a cravat as far as I'm concerned, so it's all good. :D

Hahaha, my impossible question turned back on me! :) I know Aladdin and The Lion King almost word for word off by heart, and they'll always be some of my favourites (same with Beauty and the Beast, actually, but I haven't seen that in WAY too long. Also - she was a brunette heroine! Who READS! I loved that, it was the only Disney heroine I really related to). But I do have to give a special mention to Sleeping Beauty, for having absolutely and totally the best character design ever - Maleficent is the pinnacle of character design as far as I'm concerned, she's beautiful. :3

Also YES, Brendan Urie Aladdin?! Why has this not happened?

And aww at your co-workerrrr! I only know one other person who watched Starcraft tournaments - I used to watch more but it eats so much time, I have to be careful. Nice to hear you played the first though.

Lastly, I swear our beasties aren't too bad! Well, I mean they're kind of terrifying, but you get used to it, it's okay. I don't know what would happen if I tried to swim in our harbour, but I'm going to assume I'd come out covered in slime and diesel fumes. :/

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

I think I've probably seen Little Mermaid more than any other movie in existence. Then one day they video rental place didn't have it, so my dad got some other movie version, which turned out to follow the original Hans Christien Anderson version pretty much to the letter. I spent about five minutes being totally traumatized before deciding it was the most AMAZING and MOVING and OMG TRAGICALLY WONDERFUL thing I had ever encountered in all my seven years, and it's basically only spiraled from there. Only, now I prefer it if it's told with two dudes. HI. LONG STORY. SORRY. :D

Maleficent is like. I can't even. I wanna see her and Ursula go head to head, when Ursula's all hulked out like a giant octopus tranny and Maleficent's got her dragon on. Seriously. Why hasn't this been animated as a cut scene for Soul Calibur or something?

Brendon Urie starring as Aladdin. IS WHAT I'M SAYING HERE.

Yeah, he's sorta obnoxious, but it's funny when he comes in already all hyped up about some crazy Korean smackdown drama and I get to hear the dorky blow-by-blow. And I did play, yeah, about 93837473892 years ago. It was fun, I always played as Zerg.

So I'm being a huge hypocrite here- I was raised on the side of a live volcano that frequently ate the houses of people my parents knew. I'll walk right up to flowing lava and like, step over it and poke it with sticks and stuff, but don't you dare put me in the same room as a spider. Or most insects. Or most sea creatures. And a wide variety of plant life. I like snakes and scorpions, though. Those can stay. And most carnivorous plants. Apparently rational fears are for lesser mortals than I.

[arabel.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I always adored the original Little Mermaid story - I thought she was so strong and amazing and the whole walking on knives thing, aaaaaaaargh! So amaze. Then again I even like the Water Babies book, which is completely dark and somewhat tragic.

I. Would. DIE. if they put those two in a fight some time! They had the perfect chance to do that in Kingdom Hearts, and they missed it! So sad...sigh. That game was pretty amazing, though, I should finish the second one some time. >_>;

I play zerg too! Zerg is the best! Actually the hardest race to learn to play in SC2, but I think they're fun. I refuse to relinquish my allegiance. There is some genuine lack of social graces in some Starcraft nerds though, and I say that with all affection. I kind of wish I had someone to nerd about it with, but at least I confine my nerding to other nerds, hah!

And wow...volcanoes?! That's hardcore. Respect! Anyway, rational fears are no fears at all in my mind. They make sense. Irrational fears are the ones that really get you.